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1. Add MS 12359

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Add MS 12359
Title:
Documents in Bugis and Malay
Scope & Content:
A number of documents bound together, containing notes in Malay and Buginese on happenings in the last quarter of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century. The Malay notes on f. 14 are translations from the diary of the king of Bone, Aḥmad aṣ-Ṣālih (1775-1812), and some of the Buginese n...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Buginese
Date Range:
Late 18th-early 19th century
Extent:

20 folios; 1 volume

2. Add MS 12361

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Title:
Bugis poem
Scope & Content:
On ff. 1v.-16r. a poem of the kind called sitta'sittakkĕng (i.e. composed of other pieces of poetry). Made for Arong Lompo by Arung Palakka (not the famous one of the 17th century, but a prince living at the end of the 18th and the first quarter of the 19th centuries) on the occasion of the open...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Buginese
Date Range:
Early 19th century
Extent:
18 folios; 1 volume

3. Add MS 12364

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Title:
Hikayat Muhammad Hanafiah
Scope & Content:
Fragment of a Buginese translation or version of the Malay Hikayat Muhammad Hanafiah. The story (ff. 1r.-45r.) begins with Ali's expedition against the infidels, the conquest of the country of Parĕsi, the death of the Prophet, and Husain's war against Yazïd (f. 13r.). On f. 24r. is mentioned M...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Buginese
Date Range:
Late 18th-early 19th century
Extent:
49 folios; 1 volume

4. Add MS 12365

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Title:
Bugis treatises on firearms and gunnery
Scope & Content:
Collection of small treatises on firearms, gunnery, etc., and teachings about mystical conceptions connected with military science. The treatises which are translations from Western (Portuguese and Spanish) sources and some of those from Malay works are identical to those found in Add. 12358. A:...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Buginese
Date Range:
Late 18th-early 19th century
Extent:

98 folios; 1 volume

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